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I want to make a bot to crosspost most voted news/links from Reddit. I'm interested in crypto and economics. It will be allowed?

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[โ€“] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you automate it, you are possibly taking some risk: https://sopuli.xyz/comment/179700

[โ€“] glibg10b@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Is breaking laws against the rules?

[โ€“] huojtkeg@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you for the link. I will copy links to newspapers only. I don't see any risk on that.

[โ€“] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Still the same thing. The law may see value in the curation of content that Reddit provides, even though they don't produce the content themselves. But if that is an issue is something only a lawyer can tell you.

[โ€“] Veritas@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you use the API it will only work until the end of the month.

[โ€“] kiwifoxtrot@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's incorrect. You can request a free API key that's limited to 100 calls per minute per app.

[โ€“] captdust@hachyderm.io 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@kiwifoxtrot @Veritas assuming you already had a key, I've heard people are waiting months for dev approval even before it hit the fan

[โ€“] kiwifoxtrot@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

That's a good point.

[โ€“] huojtkeg@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, the changes in the API and the official Reddit client are the main reasons to use Lemmy for me. I'm thinking in scrapping the HTML version but I didn't try yet.

[โ€“] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They're trying to combat web scraping with rate limits. It might be VERY slow. Doesn't hurt to try though.

[โ€“] daan@lemmy.vanoverloop.xyz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If scraping is slow, doesn't that mean browsing reddit will also be slow?

[โ€“] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Rate limits mean that it works normally until you hit whatever number they set (let's say 1000). Then you hit an "Oops! You were browsing too fast!" message and have to wait.

[โ€“] jerry@fedia.io 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't have any particular issue with it, however we have to be aware that the people who posted it to reddit didn't necessarily consent to it being posted here....

[โ€“] sam@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago

They sure did. when they posted it publicly.

[โ€“] SeeleLowe@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I think so. I think I've seen others doing it before lol